iMaintain (featuring JD Allen)

from iMaintain & LIVE at Joker's Pub by ISWHAT?!

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lyrics

iMaintain

(Chorus)
I maintain, that the main thing
Is to get the meaning of the first thing
4x
Better get your understandin’

(Verse 1)
If you got info but not truth
It’s like a big plate with no food
And it’s hard to concentrate on the truth
When you only meditate with them fools
You can spend all day with Glenn Gould
And be clueless of the skills that he used
You can hear the magic of the Duke
And never really get the groove

(Chorus)

(Verse)
Some try to rock with no blues
Best give it up no use
From the fruit came the juice
Like evidence came from the proof
Some find shelter with no roof
Like I get free but I’m not loose
And what’s the use of going through pain
If there ain’t meaning, no point to the thing
So ….

(Chorus)

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from iMaintain & LIVE at Joker's Pub, released May 26, 2020
Napoleon Maddox - vocals
Kimberly Gory - backing vocals
JD Allen - tenor sax
Doc Barnabas Edwards - guitar
Oscar Salamanca - synth
Brent Olds - bass
D'Anna Kennedy - electronic percussion
Tobe Donohue - drums

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ISWHAT?! Cincinnati, Ohio

ISWHAT?! is a long standing, eternal cypher of hiphop, headed by Napoleon Maddox. Since 1996, ISWHAT?!, based in Cincinnati, Ohio, is comprised of a international family of like-minded musicians and artists. This global musical concept allows ISWHAT?! to perform in many different configurations. Recently ISWHAT?! is touring the world with "Twice the First Time, Stories of Millie-Christine McKoy". ... more

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